Improvement in netting



C. DU'BOG. Netting.

No. 220,967. -Y PatentedwOct. 28,1879.

JQMESKM UNr'rnn STATESPATENT Orr-'Ion'.

OHARLESDUBOO, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN NETTING.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 220,967, dated October28, 1379; application tiled Juno i4, 1879.

To all 'whom 'it may concer/n Be it known that I, OnARLns DUBoc, of thecity of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new anduseful lmprovement in Netting, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to the construction of a fabric of network forfly-nets or fishing-nets, in which the cords of. the net are made by thelooping together of tlner threads, and the meshes are formed by loopingtwo adjacent threads into each other and into the cords, so that theyshall be firmly fastened, but without a knot.

As nets have been heretofore ordinarily constructed, they have been madeby knotting together the cords of which the net was composed, making aprotruding knot at their intersection, and network has been made bytwisting or interlacing together the cords at the intersection; but insuch netting the joints of the cords have not been tightly fastened andwould slip.

Knit fabrics have also been heretofore made formed of a series ofcordslooped upon themselves, in which the cords have been fastened togetherby links of thread passing from one cord to the other, and so attachingthem together; but this construction does not form a firm and solidmesh, as in mine.

Fabrics have also been made in which the 1 pillars of the fabric werebound by looping for articles of dress and personal wear; but in thesethe cords forming the pillars are in double rows, and are held togetheronly by the interposed decorative looping; but in mine each cord iscompletein itself, and is formed of one thread, and is interlocked withthe adjacent4 cord as hereinafter set forth.

My net, however, does not have any protruding knot, and the connectionof the cords at the intersections is perfectly rm as well as smooth. Inthe manufacture of my net I use the same number of threads that thereare meshes across the net, but the threads are much finer than is thecord of the net when finished.

The drawings represent the threads from which the cords of the net areformed, thecords formed by looping up the threads, and

the joint of the cords at the intersection forming the mesh.

Figure l of the drawings represents the threads from which the cords ofthe net are formed, the cords formed by looping up the threads, and lthejoint of the cords-at the intersection, forming the mesh. Fig. 2represents the needles, threads, and guides in the act of forming thecords from the thread, as described in the specification. Fig. 3represents the needles, threads, and guides in the act of forming themesh, as described in the specification.

Like letters represent the corresponding needles, threads, and guides.

The net is made upon an ordinary knittingloom, using two threads, A B,on each side of which there are other threads, A B, &c.

Each thread A is carried and directed by a guide, AZ, and each thread Bby a guide, B2. For each thread A there is a needle, A', and for eachthread B a needle, B. v

The first part of the process of knitting the net, supposing loops tohave been formed upon the needles, is to knit the cords the requisitedistance. This isv done by moving veach guide (carrying its thread)around its needle.

Next, the loops are to be cast off all the needles, so as to form onthem, by the threads carried round them, new loops. This processrepeated sufficiently forms the cords the necessary distance preparatoryto the next step of the process, which is the forming-of the mesh byjoining the two cords together.

In doing this the guide A2 is moved to the right, carrying the thread Aover the needle B. At the same time the guide B2 is moved to the left,carrying the thread B over the needle A. Next, the loops are to be castoff all the needles, forming on them new loops; next,

the guide A2 is moved to the left, carrying the thread A over the needleA', and at the same time the guide B2 is moved to the right, carryingthe thread B over the'needle B next, all the loops are cast od, asbefore, forming new loops; next, to form the cords each guide is movedround its needle, carrying its thread; next, all the loops are castoft', forming new loops. The cord being formed of a sufcient length theguide A2 is moved to the left, carry- A fabric of netting),` composed ofcords, each ingit-s threadA over another needle, B', which of which isformed by looping up upon itself lies to its left, and, similarly, theguide B2 is a finer thread, which cords interinesh each moved to theright, carrying its thread B over with the other, and are joined byinterlocking;l another needle, A', which lies to its right, and l thethreads of two adjacent cords together, so other meshes are formed Withthose other l substantially as specified..

threads A B; and by continuing the process CHARLES DUBOG.above-described the fabric of' netting is pro- Titnessesz duced. G.MORGAN ELDRIDGE, O

I claim as my invention- I SAML. P. HANSON.

